Caddy for packing tobacco.



H. TURNER.

(IADOY FOR PACKING TOBACCO.

APPuc/Tmu FILED ocT. 3l. um.

Patented Feb. 12, 1918.

HENRY TURNER, 0F RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

CADDY FOR PACKING TOBAOCQ,

Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. I2, 191%.

Application led October 31, 1914. Serial No. 869,686.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known4 that I, HENRY TURNER, a sub- .ject of the King of GreatBritain, residing.

at Richmond, in the county of Henrico and State of Virginia, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Caddies for PackingTobacco; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to caddies for packing tobacco, and one of theprincipal objects of the invention, is to provide means of simpleconstruction for giving the end plugs in a caddy the appearance of theplugs packed in the middle of the caddy.

In packing'plug tobacco in Caddies, the

plugs which are disposed adjacent to the wooden ends of the caddyusually have a smooth surface, which is regarded with disfavor bypurchasers, and thus the dealer in tobacco is oftentimes required tolose the sale of these end plugs.`

My present invention is designed to give the end plugs the sameappearance as the middle plugs, and without material expense.

The foregoing and other objects may be attained by means of theconstruction illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure l is a. view of the inner side of one of the covers or endmembers of the caddy, and

Fig. 2 is a sectional view through the caddy with the end members at thetop and bottom secured in place to form roughened end plugs.

Referring to the drawing the numeral 1 designates the plugs of tobaccocontained within a caddy 2, and 3 are the covers or end members of thecaddy. The caddy and covers or ends are usually made of strong wood likeoak, and these end members have their inner sides roughened as shown inthe drawing. If desired, tobacco leaves 5 may be Copies of this patentmay be obtained for ave cents each, by addressing the secured to theroughened inner sides of the end members by an adhesive substance 4. Theend members 3 may be provided with a score line or ridge 6 to representor to give the appearance of two plugs of' tobacco. When the tobacco hasbeen packed in the caddy and the ends 3 have been placed therein theends 3 are secured in place by binding strips 7, preferably oftriangular cross section and said binding strips being nailed in placeto hold the tobacco firmly in the caddy.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that the upper plugs a and thelower plugs b will have upon their outer surfaces the impression of theroughened end members, or of the tobacco leaves 5, so that they cannotbe detected from any one of the plugs l intermediate the end plugs.

Certain changes may be made in the details of construction withoutdeparting from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in theclaim.

What is claimed is Y A cover or head for tobacco caddies, said cover orhead consisting of a piece of hard wood havingl a smooth outer face anda roughened inner face formed directly in the hard wood to simulate theappearance of a plurality of plugs of tobacco, said roughened inner faceforming a bearing surface for the end plugs, and tobacco leaves securedby adhesive material to the roughened face of the said cover or head fordirectly engaging the end plugs of tobacco whereby the outer face of theend layer will be caused to present the same appearance as theintermediate layers without being affected by contact with the wood.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY TURNER.

Witnesses:

Ro'r. J. Bess, LEON CLARKE.

Gommissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. (2.

